[Ads-l] Fwd: A-shirt

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

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> From: Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> Subject: Re: A-shirt
> Date: April 9, 2017 at 11:43:21 AM PDT
> To: JJJRLandau at netscape.com
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>> On Apr 9, 2017, at 9:22 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
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>> In my local K-Mart I discovered a rack of "A-shirts", a term that is new to me but a quickie online search shows it has been around for a while.  According to Wikipedia, the term is short for "athletic shirt" rather than being something in the shape of a letter A.
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>> It is a sleeveless, buttonless shirt with shoulder straps that leave most of the shoulders bare.  Sometimes known as a "tank top" (a term that in my experience refers only to women's clothing) or less politely "wife-beater".
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> two posting on the garments on my blog:
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> 1/5/10: DEFINE “SCRIMMAGE T-SHIRT”
> https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/05/01/define-scrimmage-t-shirt/
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> 5/2/10: wife-beaters:
> https://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/05/02/wife-beaters/
> 
> arnold
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